[ubuntu-uk] IPv6 RA Not Working

[Jon Farmer]

On 8 September 2011 18:38, Jon Farmer <jon at bctech.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a Cisco router on my network that is doing RA for IPv6
> assignment. If I plug the ethernet cable into my Ubuntu 11.04 netbook
> I get a IPv6 address assigned. If I plug the same cable into my
> desktop machine also running 11.04 I get "eth0: no IPv6 routers
> present". Anyone got any ideas why it works in my netbook but not on
> desktop machine?


Sods law just got it working by enabling ufw. So anyone know why RA
doesn't work if ufw is disabled but does work if ufw is enabled?

I have IPV6=yes in /etc/default/ufw BTW

Regards

Jon